Mashenka (band)
Mashenka or Maschenka may refer to: * ''Mashenka'' or Mary (Nabokov novel) * Maschenka (1987 film), British film based on the novel * Mashenka (1942 film) ''Mashenka'' (russian: Машенька) is a 1942 Soviet drama film directed by Yuli Raizman and starring Valentina Karavayeva and Mikhail Kuznetsov. Plot Telegraphist Masha Stepanova (Valentina Karavayeva) is a medical orderly. During a fire d ...

Mary (Nabokov Novel)
''Mary'' (russian: Машенька, Mašen'ka) is the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under the pen name V. Sirin in 1926 in literature, 1926 by Russian-language publisher "Slovo". Plot summary ''Mary'' is the story of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a White émigré, Russian émigré and former White movement, White Guard Officer displaced by the Russian Revolution. Ganin is now living in a boarding house in Berlin, along with a young Russian girl, Klara, an old Russian poet, Podtyagin, his landlady, Lydia Nikolaevna Dorn and his neighbour, Aleksey Ivanovich Alfyorov, whom he meets in a dark, broken-down elevator at the beginning of the novel. Through a series of conversations with Alfyorov and a photograph, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Mary, is now the wife of his rather unappealing neighbour, and that she will be joining him soon. As Ganin realizes this, he ends his relationship with his current girlfriend, Lyudmila, and begins to be consumed by his mem ...
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Maschenka (1987 Film)
''Maschenka'' (Russian: Машенька, Mashen'ka; English: Mary) is a 1987 international film adaptation of the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under his pen name V. Sirin in 1926. The film was directed by John Goldschmidt from a screenplay by John Mortimer and stars Cary Elwes as Ganin and Irina Brook as Maschenka. Plot The story, said by Nabokov to be semi-autobiographical, is of Lev Glebovich Ganin, a Russian émigré who has been displaced by the Russian Revolution. Now living in a boarding house in Berlin, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Maschenka, is the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, Alfyrov, and that and she is on her way to rejoin her husband. This knowledge, combined with the incessant recitation of his memories of old Russia by another boarder, Podtyagin, sends him into a state of reverie. Ganin contrives a complex scheme in order to reunite with Maschenka, who he believes still loves him. Cast Production Th ...
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